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From: Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New darcs.eclass
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:20:04
Message-Id: 1148339490.17016.47.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New darcs.eclass by Duncan Coutts
1 Since there were no objections the darcs.eclass is now in the main tree.
2
3 On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 22:58 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
4 > Just like we have eclasses for cvs, tla etc, kosmikus has written one
5 > that does the same thing but for darcs.
6 >
7 > Darcs (dev-util/darcs) is one of the new breed of distributed source
8 > control systems. Many projects are now maintaining their development
9 > sources in darcs, hence the utility of this eclass:
10 >
11 > http://haskell.org/~gentoo/gentoo-haskell/portage/eclass/darcs.eclass
12 >
13 > kosmikus adapted it from the cvs and tla eclasses. We've been using it
14 > for some time in the Haskell team's overlay and we've had a request to
15 > include it in the main tree.
16 >
17 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128307
18 > That request includes an implementation but we're proposing our own
19 > implementation that is a bit more sophisticated and has already been
20 > tested with a few *-darcs ebuilds.
21 >
22 > So we'd like to have people's opinion/comments on this going into the
23 > tree and of course we would appreciate code review etc.
24
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26 Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead)
27 email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org
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